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Publication Date
2008
Description
Joel's parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. Every kid's dream is every parent's nightmare. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane when he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
Publication Date
[2012]
Description
Homer works, with pride, in a nuclear power plant run with more regard for profit that safety. Marge is his wife, who is a hardworking supermom. Together they have three kids: Bart is the oldest, but an underachiever ("and proud of it"), Lisa is the brains in the family and is know at school as the "principal's pet," and Maggie, who is the baby.
5) Zapped
Publication Date
[2015]
Description
When sixteen-year-old Zoey's mom remarries, Zoey finds it hard adjusting to her new life. She's got a new family, a new home, a new school. After a freak accident with her smart phone, she finds she has a magical app which can control the boys around her. With this app she can make the boys more thoughtful, behaved, better versions of themselves and make her life much easier!
6) Grand Canyon
Publication Date
c1992
Description
In a crime-ridden Los Angeles area, a towtruck driver rescues a stranded and menaced yuppie lawyer, which causes the saved man to re-evaluate his life.
Publication Date
[c2010]
Description
The ultimate battle between good and evil reaches new heights as a tear in the Veil separating the world of the living from the Underworld unleashes the most powerful forces the world has ever known. Only the mythical Stone of Tears can seal the cracks forming across the globe, and only The Seeker, with the help of Kahlan, Zedd and a fiery Mord'Sith named Cara, can find the stone and close the rift once and for all.
Publication Date
2003, c2001
Description
14-year-old Emily is the neighborhood secret keeper. While her friends are away at summer camp, Emily befriends her new next-door neighbor, Philip. She spends part of her time practicing her violin for an important audition with a prestigious symphony and part of her time listening to the neighborhood secrets. Emily lets Philip in on her secrets and it isn't long before it leads to betrayal and hurt.
Publication Date
[2019]
Description
Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Please won't you be my neighbor! Stroll down memory lane with this four-disc set featuring 30 iconic episodes from the beloved children's series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, hand-selected by Fred Rogers Productions. This set includes classic episodes about getting along with others, dealing with different feelings, and caring for your family.
11) Dirty grandpa
Publication Date
[2016]
Description
Jason Kelly, an uptight lawyer headed down the wrong path, is tricked by his rambunctious grandpa, Dick, into taking an outrageous road trip. While his methods may be unconventional, Dick is determined to teach him how to live life on his own terms.
Publication Date
2001, c1959
Description
Richard Burton delivers a passionate performance, and Mary Ure, ClaireBloom, Gary Raymond and Edith Evans give exciting stand-out portrayals (Los Angeles Times)in this powerful and engrossing motion picture (Cue) that bristles with brilliant dialogue (The Hollywood Reporter) and raw human emotion. Rage! His eyes blaze with it and his bodyseethes with it. Jimmy Porter is a man consumed by anger, and every moment he spends in the rank, suffocating squalor...
14) City of Ember
Publication Date
[2009]
Description
For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the streetlamps fade - along with the hopes of the townspeople. Now it will be up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient builders to find the way out of Ember before their world is plunged into complete darkness.
15) The last samurai
Publication Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren is coerced by a mercenary officer to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this modernization are the samurai warriors who are holding fast to their traditions of honor, despite their strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader, Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's...
16) Yes man
Publication Date
[2009]
Description
Carl Allen always says no and in turn does not have very much fun in his life. As a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job, Carl decides to sign up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything and anything. His life is transformed when he unleashes the power of 'yes.' Carl's life is changed in amazing and unexpected ways. This is especially true when Carl meets an intriguing, free-spirted musician....
18) Management
Publication Date
[2009]
Description
Mike Cranshaw has a chance meeting with Sue Claussen when she checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona. A bottle of wine 'compliments of management' jump starts a cross-country journey and unique courtship between two different kinds of people who are both ultimately looking for the same thing: a sense of happiness. Mike sees something special in button downed Sue that inspires him to take a chance and hit the road to go after...
Publication Date
c2010
Description
The hysterically funny, best-selling book comes to life in this smash-hit family comedy! Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid's life, middle school! That won't be easy, considering he's surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!
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